contract (for work); contracting; undertaking
to undertake; to take on (task); to assure; to guarantee; to vouch (for)
to contract; to undertake; to take over; to take responsibility for
paying to get someone (esp. a geisha, prostitute, etc.) out of bondage
subcontract; subcontractor (person or company)
written acknowledgement; written acknowledgment; receipt
promising without due consideration
to redeem; to take out of pawn; to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage (by paying off her debt to her employer)
agency that dispatches lodged servants
certification issued by a temple to prove affiliation
prime contract work; prime contractor
to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand
disguised contracting; fake subcontract; hiring a temporary employee and paying for the completion of the work rather than the work itself, thereby avoiding have to pay benefits
retailing; repeating (someone else's words, opinion, etc.); parroting; echoing
money needed to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage
subcontractor; subcontracting company
terauke system; system established by the Edo shogunate that required citizens to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist (i.e. non-Christian) faith
redemption (e.g. of a loan)
to redeem (e.g. mortgage, pawned article); to ransom; to take up
master contractor; prime contactor; general contractor
ukebana; lotus-shaped support on a pedestal, lantern, pagoda finial, etc.